Aline Forçain, a multi-disciplinary artist born in France and based in Brussels, trained at European level at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse, the ARBA in Brussels and the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Complutense University in Madrid. This multi-faceted training has enabled her to decompartmentalize her artistic practice, opening up a whole range of possibilities for contemporary creation. Her art revolves around drawing, painting, engraving and photography. Coming from a farming background, she questions our relationship with the world through the prism of landscape. She draws further inspiration from literature, philosophy and “popular beliefs”. Her main influences include Caravaggio, Francisco de Goya, Claude Monet, Vincent Van Gogh, Hilma af Klint, Augustin Lesage, Mark Rothko and Wolgang Laib.

She has taken part in Europe in several group exhibitions, including Jet lag – out of sync at Les Rotondes or Within the folds of time at Art et marges museum, and also artistic residencies in particular in Martinique Island, at Kult XL Ateliers and at the Villa Empain - Fondation Boghossian in Brussels, at the Centre Culturel de Namur in Wallonia and at the Frans Masereel Centrum in Flanders. In 2016, she completed a public commission for the Cercle Cité institution and in 2019, Nosbaum Reding Projects gallery organized her first solo exhibition. She has received several grants for her artistic research (Ministry of Culture, Fondation Eté, stART-up, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles), she joined the Level 5 artist's collective in 2022. She recently exhibited at Plagiarama in duo with artist Mohammed Alani and soon she will be in residence at the Nordic Artist's Centre Dale in Norway.

English version: © Joan Forçain